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A nurse had an MRI because she was having back pain. Her doctor said it was multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer.

Dr. Edward Cathright is a dentist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.

With large numbers of nurses emigrating, patient care is suffering as there are not enough staff.

On February 3rd, a moose charged and trampled Bridgett Watkins' dog team, near Fairbanks, when they were on a training run to prepare for the Iditarod. Here's what happened, in her words.

The NBA postponed Golden State's game with Denver on Thursday, the same day that Philadelphia’s Doc Rivers and Denver’s Michael Malone entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols.

Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.

One nurse at Tampa General Hospital told our sister station this experience has made her more grateful for her life.

Nebraska is running out of nurses. The state's solution? Ads urging nurses to apply to jobs without mandating a coronavirus vaccine and up to $5,000 hiring bonuses.

In a video diary, the nurse said she never imagined she would lose so many patients so needlessly.

The nurse is now helping distribute COVID vaccines in her area.

The ER nurse contracted COVID-19 in January and spent weeks in the hospital.

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A nurse sanitizes her hands as she leaves a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient room in the ICU at SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, January 28, 2021. Deaths from the coronavirus are increasing again after weeks of decline as the delta variant rips through unvaccinated pockets of the country, the director of the Centers for Disease Control said Friday. "After weeks of declines, seven day average daily deaths have increased by 26% to 211 per day," Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a press briefing Friday. This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.

A woman who fought off a crocodile attacking her twin sister tells the BBC about their ordeal.

No Nurse Left Behind, LLC, was created to help people climb the ladder in their careers.

No Nurse Left Behind, LLC, was created to help people climb the ladder in their careers.

The nurse spent weeks on the road helping COVID-19 patients all over the country.

The nurse spent weeks on the road helping COVID-19 patients all over the country.

The nurse spent about two months helping patients in New York before traveling to other hospitals around the country.

Nurse who uses a wheelchair overcomes the odds Throughout her career, Andrea Dalzell, a New York nurse who uses a wheelchair, was met with challenges. She was told she couldn't be a nurse, but when COVID-19 hit, she proved her doubters wrong.

Baton Rouge nurse on mission to vaccinate city's underserved communities A Baton Rouge nurse has made it her personal mission to vaccinate as many residents of the Louisiana city's low-income communities as possible. David Begnaud joined her on one of her registration drives.

Baton Rouge nurse on mission to vaccinate city's underserved communities A Baton Rouge nurse has made it her personal mission to vaccinate as many residents of the Louisiana city's low-income communities as possible. David Begnaud joined her on one of her registration drives.

HOUSTON – The family of Tricia Moten is mourning after the 49-year-old nurse died Friday a six-week battle with COVID-19. She was my everything, my rock, my soul,” said her son, TJ Lynch. Moten’s daughter Tya Lynch said her mother will always be with them but they will continue moving forward. And me, focusing on school and volleyball and not letting this stop us because I knew she wouldn’t want us to,” Tya Lynch said. AdFriends of the family started a GoFundMe to help support the family during this difficult time.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Several anti-vaccine social media posts are circulating around the internet claiming the new COVID-19 vaccine made a Tennessee critical care nurse faint shortly after getting the shot. She was surrounded by CHI Memorial medical personnel who assisted in administering the shot. A press conference from WRCB showed Dover receiving the vaccine when she suddenly dropped down to the floor. Some of the posts also claimed that the vaccine is unsafe for humans after the video began circulating of Dover fainting began circulating on Facebook. While the nurse did pass out after receiving the vaccine, she said fainting wasn’t because of the shot.

A portrait of Jose Valencia, a male nurse who died from symptoms related to COVID-19, placed on a Day of the Dead altar made by his daughter at their home in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. The weekend holiday isn't the same in a year so marked by death in a country where more than 90,000 people have died of COVID-19, many cremated rather than buried and with cemeteries forced to close. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

HOUSTON – A Houston nurse struck and killed Friday by a vehicle near Hermann Park is being remembered for his infectious personality. Houston Police said the Lapid was struck around 6:15 a.m. by a Cadillac Sedan in the 5900 block of Fannin Street. His older sister, Dianne, said Lapid left his job as a nurse in Dallas to be closer to family. He had only been working in the ICU at Houston Methodist Hospital for about two months before tragedy struck. “He was a phenomenal nurse, a wonderful person and everyone that knew him would see that.”Diskin trained Lapid when he started at Houston Methodist.

In honor of National Hospital Week, health care workers, medical facilities and health systems are being highlighted around the country. After that, I took several pediatric patient transfers and a few other patient transfer between our sister facilities. Memorial Hermann has always provided very good equipment. Memorial Hermann is truly where I belong because Memorial Hermann is one, and one family. It’s like a second home.”In honor of #NationalHospitalWeek, help us say thank you to the team at Memorial Hermann.

HOUSTON – Like many local hospitals, Houston Methodist Hospital opened a special unit to treat critically ill coronavirus patients. They’re calling it the “Coronavirus ICU,” and right now there is a revolving door of 88 patients total in the Houston Methodist system, 24 patients at the Texas Medical Center campus. Nurses working inside the unit said when they manage to discharge one, the next patient comes in. The Texas Nurses Association supports what Carnahan and Catalan said, the number of patients has remained relatively low considering the size of Houston. Houston Methodist Hospital says their ICUs across all eight campuses are at 70% capacity.

"48 Hours: NCIS": Trail of Fire Friends searching for a missing Army nurse find her apartment smoldering and no sign of their friend. Can NCIS agents find her?

Nurse outlines hospital's lack of preparedness for Ebola patient Brianna Aguirre, a nurse at Texas Presbyterian feels the hospital was not adequately prepared to handle an infected patient, or protect their employees from the virus. Aguirre, who currently is not infected with the virus says she would not be comfortable being treated in her own hospital. Anna Werner reports.

Ebola case in Spain Dr. Robert Glatter, Emergency Physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, discusses a nurse in Spain who contracted Ebola after treating a priest infected with the virus in Sierra Leone. She is the first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa.